Startup Shutdown Instructions

Startup/Shutdown Instructions

The purpose of this notification is to notify market participants of startup and shutdown instructions.

The following response message structure will be used for StartupShutdown Instructions notification:

Message Element	Value
Header/Verb	created
Header/Noun	StartupShutdownInstructions
Header/Source	ERCOT
Reply/ReplyCode	Reply code, success=OK, error=ERROR or FATAL
Reply/Error	Error message, if error encountered
Reply/Timestamp	Current System Timestamp
Payload/	StartupShutdownInstructions

The following payload structure is used to convey these notifications.

The following is an XML example:

<StartupShutdownInstructions xmlns="http://www.ercot.com/schema/2007-06/nodal/ews" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <StartupShutdown>
        <rucType>DRUC</rucType>
        <hourEnding>6</hourEnding>
        <deliveryDate>2007-07-25</deliveryDate>
        <resource>Resource1</resource>
        <clearedCommit>true</clearedCommit>
        <clearedDecommit>false</clearedDecommit>
        <decommitReasonCode>50 characters of free form text.</decommitReasonCode>
        <reportDate>2007-07-25T11:00:00-06:00</reportDate>
    </StartupShutdown>  
</StartupShutdownInstructions>

On long day(DST change day), hourEnding will be represented as 2* for repeating hour.